After more than 40 years of studying local government, George Jones and John Stewart look at what...
In the decade since the Government came up with its plans for new political structures for counci...
Ministers and many local authorities are reluctant to take the decentralising path because they f...
In the flurry of reports last month, the Ministry of Justice’s paper on engagement passed unnoti...
A new book on the recent round of local government reorganisation alleges that the process which ...
George Jones and John Stewart argue why they are opposed to directly-elected mayors
Less than three months after the signing of the grandly-named central/local government concordat ...
George Jones and John Stewart support many of the proposals in the recent Councillors’ Commission...
David Cameron’s proposal for local referenda on council taxes is a retread of a suggestion by Mic...
'Wicked' issues are unsolved and hard-to-resolve problems - and local government encounters them ...
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